Winster, Derbyshire's photostream  

This site is devoted to historic images of Winster, Derbyshire, England, and some of the people who have lived there. I hope you enjoy it.

The site celebrated its 3rd Birthday on 1st June 2011 by which time it had had 42757 visitors. By 1 May 2012 total visitors had risen to 51718. November 2009 was a record month - there were 2690 visitors and in April 2011 there were 1191. In February 2012 there were 932. Please keep coming back to enjoy the site and to see if there is anything new and please tell other people about it.

The site is under continual review as the content grows.

There are bound to be some errors of fact and identification: if you spot one (or more) please let me know and I'll correct them.

Indeed, if you have any images which you would like to see on this site then send me a jpeg scan with as much information about the images that you can muster and I'll be grateful to you.

I was born in Winster and, although I have not lived there for some 46 years, still regard it as "home."

If you are interested in Winster's local and family history then you should also look at these sites:-

winster-ancestry.blogspot.com/ (maintained by Dawn Scotting)

Winster Genuki (maintained by Rosemary Lockie)

Both Dawn and Rosemary have generously published some of my "Winster work" on their sites viz

1. a 1977 partial Survey of the Memorial Inscriptions in Winster Churchyard. Click on this link to see it.
www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Winster/MIs.html

2. a review of membership records of the Winster Odd Fellows. Click on this link to see it.
winster-ancestry.blogspot.com/2009/05/oddfellows-members....

3. Indices of Winster Parish Magazines. These deal with the years 1888-1962 (but not a complete run) and are divided into births, burials, marriages, military and miscellaneous. The indices and Magazines are at the Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock.

I also acknowledge the generous help (and encouragement) of the following people and others (in alphabetical order) who have kindly provided images and background information with much of the material on this site:

John Andrews, Les Bacon, Joan Barnsley (nee Greatorex my sister), Christine Boswell (Roper), David Bramley, Jane Bradbury, Eric Brassington, Carolyn Brook (Boam), Joy Carter (Greatorex), Kath Cassy (Woof), Julia Cawton (Stone), Roland Corfield, Eileen Crowder (Brassington), Rob. Davies, June Else (Hope), Cedric Ellis, Pat Ellis (Mayling), Ros Forster, Chris Gillott, Rob Greatorex, Ron Greatorex (my brother), Tony Holmes, Ida Fermor Design, Andrew Kreibich, Chris Laybourn, Brian Long, Rob MacGregor (and his parents), John Marsden, Ken Marshall, the late Mick Mayling, John Merrill, Ally Nurre (Ware), Dave Nutt, Peak District Mines Historical Society, Peak District National Park Authority, National Trust, Marion Richardson, Mick Saxton, Judy Scott (Mather), Judith Sellers, Joann Shirley, Stewart Simpson, Karen Stephens, Ken. Stinson, Mick Stone, Keith Taylor, Eric Wagstaff, Steven White, Roy Witham, Winster Local History Group, Linda Woolley.

Updated 1May 2012